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  Sucre - LoveToKnow 1911
SUCRE, or Chuquisaca, a city of Bolivia, capital of the department of Chuquisaca and nominal capital of the republic, 46 M. of Potosi in 19 0 2' 45" S., 65° 17' W. Pop.
Sucre is the seat of the archbishop of La Plata and Charcas, the primate of Bolivia.
Sucre was the first city of Spanish South America to revolt against Spanish rule - on the 25th of May 1809.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sucre   (473 words)

  
 Sucre (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sucre Municipality, Aragua and Sucre Municipality, Miranda, venezuelan municipalities.
Sucre family, an ancient and prominent venezuelan family.
Fernando Sucre, a fictional Puerto Rican character from the US television series Prison Break.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sucre_(disambiguation)   (116 words)

  
 Reservations, Declarations, Objections and Derogations - CCPR - Peru
Department of Huánuco (Province of Ambo and District of Monzón of the Province of Huamaliés).
Department of Huánuco (Provinces of Ambo and Leoncio Prado; Districts of Monzón of the Province of Huamalíes and Cholón of the Province of Marañón).
Department of Huánuco: Ambo and Leoncio Prado, District of Monzón (Province of Huamaliés) and District of Cholón (province of Marañón);
www.bayefsky.com /html/peru_t2_ccpr.php   (8027 words)

  
 Sincelejo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sincelejo is the capital city of the department of Sucre in Colombia.
After the independence period it formally became part of the Magdalena Department; and later on, in 1831 became again part of the Cartagena Province.
The department of Sucre was created in 1966 and Sincelejo named as its capital.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sincelejo   (318 words)

  
 COLOMBIA Colombia: Extrajudicial killings, "disappearances", death threats and other political violence in ...
The recent spate of political violence in the department of Sucre is not a new development.
At the beginning of 1996, 70 members of paramilitary groups operating in the department of Córdoba and the Urabá region of the department of Antioquia, were reportedly deployed to the department of Sucre and are reportedly patrolling the department.
With the increase of paramilitary action in the department of Sucre, Fidel Castaño is reported to be acquiring land in the region.
web.amnesty.org /802568F7005C4453/0/A024C69947A2D4B48025690000692DEA!Open   (4124 words)

  
 Colombia: Extrajudicial killings, "disappearances", death threats and other political violence in the ...
In Sucre amongst the civic organizations which were created were a number of Comités Cívicos - Civic Committees or Movimientos Cívicos - Civic Movements which were set up in several municipalities of the department of Sucre to participate in local elections and break the traditional political hegemony of the Colombian Liberal and Conservative Parties.
Ana Silvia María Arrieta, a sociologist and former candidate to the Sucre Departmental Assembly for the Asamblea por la Organización de Mujeres de Sucre - Assembly for the Organization of Women of the department of Sucre.
José Padilla, an administrator of the Sucre branch of the ANUC, a peasant farmer leader and a town councillor belonging to the Movimiento Cívico de Morroa - Morroa Civic Movement.
www.amnestyusa.org /justearth/document.do?id=A024C69947A2D4B48025690000692DEA   (4112 words)

  
 RIC Query - Colombia (11 August 2002)
The report states: “The recent spate of political violence in the department of Sucre is not a new development.
The report connects the increase in rights violations in Sucre to the government’s counter-insurgency efforts and emphasizes that the behavior of the security forces and the paramilitary groups “involves the deliberate targeting of those in the civilian population suspected of sympathizing with guerrilla forces.
The Urabá comprises the three northeastern departments of Chocó, Antioquia and Córdoba, and Córdoba borders the department of Sucre.
www.uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/COL02006.htm   (912 words)

  
 Colombia
Two CTI investigators on the case disappeared in mid-April near Berrugas, Sucre department and are presumed dead.
The ELN is suspected of involvement in the February 6 killing of nine farmers in the La Cristalina community, in Santander department (Magdalena Medio region).
The kidnaping apparently was in retaliation for meetings that the mayors had held with representatives of the ELN to seek respect for the lives of the civilian population in their municipalities.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/wha/8326.htm   (19960 words)

  
 State Department Warnings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Department of State documents and publications that provide key official information on U.S. foreign policy, notifications of travel warnings...
Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday that he was "startled" by a little-noticed State Department memo that was issued a week ago and warned that Americans "may be the target of a terrorist threat."...
United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level...
usembassyinukraine.impiukraine.com /statedepartmentwarnings   (888 words)

  
 disturbances in Bolivia s23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
COCHABAMBA DEPARTMENT This centrally located and third most important department of the country is totally blocked in all directions from the rest of the country, now for several days.
SUCRE DEPARTMENT The official capital of the country is also incomunicado with the rest of the country.
All roads leading into and out of Cochabamba (the geographic center of the country) are closed, calculated to cost the department at least $3 million a day (the Government declared that over $20 million has been lost nationally since the road blocks began and that foreign trade contracts are in danger of being cancelled).
stop-war.aufmupf.de /PineSGI4101001002130107054282566-100000.html   (2236 words)

  
 americas.org - Paramilitary Violence Intensifies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Police suspect paramilitary forces in the December 6 massacres of 17 people in Tolu Viejo in the department of Sucre and of six other villagers in the Boyaca region.
In San Alberto in the department of César, accusing their victims of sympathizing with left-wing guerrillas, the paramilitary group Córdoba and Uraba Campesino Self-Defense (ACCU) claimed responsibility for the murders of six people dragged from their homes and shot December 7.
In a single weekend in the department of Antioquia, another five were killed in Guarne and seven in Abriqui, Cármen del Viboral and Turbo.
www.americas.org /item_12169   (353 words)

  
 040114 EU v. PHILIP MORRIS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Departments of the Republic of Colombia brought these RICO actions against various tobacco companies, alleging that the tobacco companies engaged in cigarette smuggling and money laundering in their territories.
The Departments of Colombia make similar allegations, claiming that the defendants have established and maintained small volumes of legal cigarette sales in Colombia in order to conceal and facilitate the many illegal shipping routes into the country.
Absent such indication that the executive branch consents to the suit, a claim that triggers the revenue rule is barred unless the plaintiffs establish that superior law, such as the federal statute that provides the applicable right of action, abrogates the rule in the context in which the plaintiffs seek to enforce their tax laws.
www.tobacco.org /resources/documents/040114EUvPM.html   (5961 words)

  
 Bolivia Hotels in Sucre -Rates and booking Bolivia Contact
Bolivia Contact presents offers from the cheapest hotels, to the most luxurious five star hotels hotels in Sucre, and a great variety in lodgings for the commercial traveler, also for those with vacational purpose.
In Sucre, colonial city, Glorieta Hotel is waiting for you.
Ancient colonial XVIII century house, situated in the colonial architectural center of Sucre.
www.boliviacontact.com /Hotels_Sucres.html   (241 words)

  
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This was especially true in the Department of Antioquia, as well as in Chocó;, Norte de Santander, and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region.
The prosecutor general's office continued investigating allegations that the soldiers tampered with evidence in the case and that the police and civilians killed were in the area to pick up a shipment of cocaine.
The majority of conflicts of jurisdiction that arose were resolved by the Higher Council of the Judiciary in favour of the ordinary jurisdiction, in accordance with constitutional jurisprudence and the recommendation of the High Commissioner.
www.lawg.org /countries/colombia/certification2006.htm   (5938 words)

  
 Colombia
For example, the CCJ alleged that on May 11 troops of the 6th Brigade surrounded the towns of Montoso and Aco, Tolima department, accused various members of the population of being guerrilla collaborators, and causing the disappearance of Jose Maximiliano Gomez.
For example, on May 30, paramilitaries in the department of Cesar released a senior departmental government employee they had held captive for over 9 months; paramilitaries justified their actions by claiming they had held him while they investigated allegations of corruption.
On July 21, police in Atlantico department captured Leonidas Ricardo Reyes, the AUC Southern Bloc's third-in-command, who was suspected of murdering several teachers and a student in Magdalena department.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27891.htm   (18487 words)

  
 Colombia Departments
The first and most notorious was the loss of its department of Panama, in a revolution encouraged by the United States to ease the way for the leasing of the Panama Canal Zone.
Colombia is divided into 32 departamentos (departments) and one distrito capital (capital district).
Bogotá, capital of the Republic and of the Department of Cundinamarca, is organized as the Capital District....
www.statoids.com /uco.html   (771 words)

  
 RIC Query - Colombia (20 May 2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Meanwhile, the three principal armed groups are expected to keep growing, as all continue to profit substantially from illegal drugs, kidnapping and extortion operations, and all are able to equip and in many case pay their fighters well.
Earlier the ERP unit had dynamited part of a bridge on the highway that connects Sincelejo, the capital of Sucre department, to Cartagena (22 March 2002).
On 23 March, the Colombian daily EL COLOMBIANO reported heavy fighting between FARC units and the army in the departments of Atlántico and Magdalena, and the bombing by the Colombian air force of three guerrilla camps near the border between the two departments (23 March 2002).
uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/COL02005.htm   (2219 words)

  
 Amnesty International Report 2002 - Americas - COLOMBIA
Criminal investigations were reportedly opened on six paramilitaries and several members of the armed forces in relation to the massacre in January in Chengue, Sucre Department.
Pablo Emilio Parra Castañeda, the manager of a radio station in Tolima Department, was killed on 27 June, reportedly by members of the FARC who accused him of being an informant.
On 29 August, Yolanda Paternina Negrete, a judicial official investigating the Chengue massacre, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Sincelejo, Sucre Department.
web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/amr/colombia!Open   (2144 words)

  
 CPJ Protests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
We are urging you in the strongest possible terms to launch an exhaustive investigation into this lethal attack on press freedom, the third to have taken place in Colombia in less than three months.
He was formerly a correspondent with Radio Caracolí in Sincelejo, the capital of Sucre Department, and with the Sincelejo daily Meridiano.
This is not the first time CPJ has documented the killing of a journalist in response to his work in the violence-ridden Sucre Department.
www.cpj.org /protests/99ltrs/Colombia22Oct99.html   (366 words)

  
 MSF-USA: Colombia Information Page
MSF teams are currently at work in the departments of Caqueta, Choc, Cordoba, Sucre, Bolivar, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Tolima, Cundinamarca and in the Bogot capital district.
In the western city of Quibdó, in Chocó; department, Colombia's poorest region, MSF teams support two health centers in the shantytowns of Porvenir and Reposo as well as the first-level hospital, Ismael Roldan.
Tolima department and the western part of Cundinamarca department comprise a strategically important area, as the main roads leading from Cali and Medellin to Bogotá pass through them.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org /news/colombia.cfm   (1401 words)

  
 Caño Limon Oilfield : Costs of Doing Business : AFSC
Caño Limon, located in northeastern Colombia in the department of Arauca on the border with Venezuela, is the country's second largest oilfield.
Oil extracted from this field is transported through the Caño Limon-Coveñas pipeline, which runs from Arauca to the department of Sucre.
It is 490 miles (780 kms) long and can transport approximately 130,000 barrels a day from Caño Limon to the Caribbean port of Coveñas in Sucre, representing almost 20 percent of Colombia's oil production[25].
www.afsc.org /colombiaoil/oil_2.htm   (746 words)

  
 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2001 - Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Authorities are investigating the April 30 murder of Carlos Trespalacios, communications director for the municipal sports and recreations institute in Medellin, Antioquia department.
Estrada was president of the Association for the Development of Communications and Culture in San Pablo and was working on the implementation of a community radio station in the municipality.
The investigation continued into the September 2000 murder by paramilitary members of Carlos Jose Restrepo Rocha, the publisher of TanGente newspaper in Tolima, a municipal council candidate, and a former member of the now-inactive M-19 guerrilla group.
www.usemb.se /human/2001/west/colombia.html   (20971 words)

  
 Inter-American Human Rights Database
Mistreatment of farmers in the Department of Sucre and the arrest of Esteban Echeverry and Enrique Antonio Atencia, upon orders from the Military Penal Court, without trial;
The death of peasant leader, Rubén Darío Grajalos Ruiz, in the Department of Risaralda
The arbitrary arrest of the deputies of a Legislative Assembly in one of the departments of the country
www.wcl.american.edu /humright/digest/1975/comm1780.cfm   (562 words)

  
 Institute of Atmospheric & Environmental Science
It was formed by the merger of the former Department of Meteorology with the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management on 1 August 2003.
In the former departments that now make up the Institute, we are proud that our teaching has been graded as 'Excellent' and that we received the top grade of 5 in the last Research Assessment Exercise.
Edinburgh University is one of the UK's leading universities, and the College of Science and Engineering has one of the best records for teaching and research in the entire country.
www.geos.ed.ac.uk /abs   (236 words)

  
 sucre - OneLook Dictionary Search
Sucre, sucre : The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
Sucre, sucre : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include sucre: antonio jose de sucre, antonio j de sucre, antonio josé de sucre, department of sucre, ecuadorean sucre, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=sucre&loc=resrd   (243 words)

  
 afp102500.html
Deputies Anibal Monterrosa and Felipe Villegas, as well as Senator Antonio Guerra, all of the opposition Liberal party were captured in a rural area some 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) north of Bogota, authorities said.
A driver and a relative of the senator were also kidnapped, according to Oscar Herrera, the people's ombudsman in the northern department of Sucre.
Authorities said that AUC last week kidnapped two Liberal Party deputies and a candidate in the municipal elections in the neighboring department of Cordoba.
www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/colombia/afp102500.html   (503 words)

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